Education minister, who tried to withhold the prize over Professor Goldreich's support for boycotting a university in a settlement, says he's a 'provocateur'
'The story is incomplete without noting the price that another nation paid for our rebirth,' Professor Goldreich said in the ceremony, after the Israel Prize was withheld from him over his support for a boycott of a West Bank university
Israel's High Court ruled against the minister's request to withhold Professor Goldreich's award over his boycott of a West Bank university, opining that such a move would constitute 'persecution' of academics
A year after the first petition, the High Court of Justice has ordered Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton to award the Israel Prize in math and computer science to Pro